the most reliable short yardage package in my 25+ years of Cyclone fandom was LanRam, which I believe was done from shotgun.
With Dekkers under helm…
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A very vocal minority of this fanbase hated Brock for some reason.
I loved Brock. Glad he was a Cyclone, he’ll be in the history books awhile. Obviously he was great for Iowa State standards, but he’s not elite. He was a very good QB for us, but he was limited in what he could do. He wasn’t clutch. When someone asks you what QB would you want to lead a game winning drive, no one’s saying Purdy.
I’ve said this before, this is like the Chiefs transition on offense. Smith was great for the Chiefs. He was mobile and accurate. He had a great TE, RB, and defense. He was a perfect mentor for Mahomes. Mahomes had a much bigger arm and still some mobility. Tyreek was a special team star with Smith, and an elite WR with Mahomes.
I wouldn’t change anything the last four years, but we are in trouble if in 10-20 years Brock is still the best QB in school history. I think Hunter is going to break several of his single game/season records.
He's probably going to have the career records for a long time. It's not very often that you have a guy starting for 3 1/2 years. Kind of a perfect situation...good enough to start halfway through his TRFR year, but not good enough to declare early after his JR season. But his single game/season records I would bet aren't #1 in the books for very long.
Hmmm. There are 3.75 million reasons why this take might not be entirely right.
It didn't help that the Iowa DB was grabbing Hutchinson's shirt all the way down the field.
This guy just showed you multiple rational reasons to expect a comfortable win against SEMO. Your only reasoning against that is past performance against in-state schools...
It's fine if you want to be pessimistic pete, but you don't have to go on & on trying to convince all of us to join you.
You can say this 100 times. It's true. But I'm just not going to worry about SEMO.
We’re a ball control conservative offense until I’m shown otherwise. They never unleash the beast unless they know they have the other team’s game plan pegged. They treat turnovers as -10 while they treat TDs as +4.
And they still end up with a -4 TO margin vs Iowa....
We had a few games where Purdy led us from way behind in the 4th quarter only to have the defense give up the winning score. Last year's loss to TTU comes to mind. We also had way too many games where ISU dug too big of a hole in the 1st half.
Usually those deep holes were dug by 3-out offense deep in our own territory followed by a 20 yard punt.
I understand the hesitancy to be optimistic the first game but SEMO is bad. We’ve only struggled against solid UNI teams who have everything to play for, ULL who was arguably the best G5 team that year, and then Drake.
Those who are actually concerned about the Drake game need to get over it. The worst field conditions I’ve seen. They could’ve played Coe College and had similar results. It was a crapshoot to whether you could even hold onto a snap. Lol
Those who are actually concerned about the Drake game need to get over it. The worst field conditions I’ve seen. They could’ve played Coe College and had similar results. It was a crapshoot to whether you could even hold onto a snap. Lol
That “80% of the time” we were playing against traditional FCS powers.
That sure ain’t SEMO.
To refresh your memory, one score, we stuffed them, then started ripping right down the field again. It would have been just like the ULM game.
And, for the FCS Chicken Little(/s), this program is four years further down the CMC road now.
Coach Bryant was once asked what he thought about his left-handed QB Kenny Stabler (who led Alabama to an 11-0 season in 1966), and Coach Bryant dead-panned: "I've never trusted left handed quarterbacks or left handed crap shooters!"
Stabler is the first Raiders QB I remember. I refuse to remember him playing for anyone else.
